Sen. Paul Doyle, D-Wethersfield, who co-chairs the Judiciary Committee, has said at the start of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration there were over 200 people in solitary confinement, now they’re down to 35.

The bill has been championed by Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, who in March spent two hours in a replica-like solitary cell to experience the feeling of isolated confinement.

“We are concerned about the effects of isolated confinement on the individuals we place in isolated confinement,” Winfield said. But those concerns don’t just end with the inmates.

“There is a concern about those who have to deal with people in isolated confinement,” Winfield added.

The cell Winfield spent two hours in was a replica built by lawyers, psychiatrists and religious leaders who are using it to build a movement to limit the use of solitary confinement to Connecticut.

The bill wouldn’t necessarily change anything Connecticut is currently doing.